Transclusion

For information about transclusion on Wikiversity, see Transclusion

In computer science, transclusion is the inclusion of part of a document into another document by reference.

For example, a resource called Agricultural policy by country might include sections for The United States, Mexico and India. Transclusion takes parts of documents and distributes them to other contexts. For example:

The term was coined by hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson in 1982.